Word: recoup
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...Many Congressmen have had to return to private life after a few years to recoup...
After eleven days, the strike of six Manhattan dailies ended last week, and the papers hustled to recoup their ad losses. As a result, the Sunday papers this week were the fattest ever printed any place. The 102-year-old New York Times printed the biggest paper in its history (430 pages, 4 lbs. 14 oz.), including a two-page edition "for the record" for every one of the days missed during the strike, along with four news sections (152 pages) crammed with Christmas ads. The tabloid News printed 532 pages for its six different editions for the New York...
Early in the play. Edward (Anthony Oliver) neatly does in his wife, only to find that financially he has done himself in as well. He sets out to recoup by courting and marrying a well-to-do ex-barmaid (vivaciously played by Brenda Bruce), but she proves more than a match for him. A third lady now crosses his path-a path that leads, after many turns, but to the grave...
...call, and the parade ground was a half mile away. Dashing down stairs, he began an awkward jog up the street, puffing under the weight of his overcoat. By the time he reached the Square, a trickle of perspiration was wetting his starched shirt collar, and Vag slowed to recoup his breath...
...story is a play of ironies. Cinqué arrived home to find his village burned, his family sold into slavery. Wise now in the white man's ways but primitive as ever in his ethics, the black apostle of freedom turned slave runner to recoup his fortunes. He died old and famous in his country, and was buried, by his deathbed wish, in the cemetery of the little mission...